Why Ligatures?

From: Chester, Bernard (BChester@saros.com)
Date: Wed Oct 15 1997 - 15:25:33 EDT

I guess I don't understand the reasoning behind having ligatures in a
codepage. For example, Latin 00 proposal wants to add OE and oe
ligatures to Latin-1.

Aren't these cases that the display logic should handle, but the data
actually is 2 letters? Is there a semantic difference if the display
showed 2 characters? When I search for oe ligature code value,
shouldn't I match with the octet pair o & e?

Thanks

Bernard Chester
EDM Localization Coordinator, FileNET Bellevue
425-450-1479 bchester@filenet.com

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